sent all the footage, every
last shot
by courier to the editors
whose job it was
to make the portrait credible,
the narrative convincing,
to cut out the quasi-delusional, semi-hallucinatory, sort-of-Alice-in
-Wonderland wash and
rinse and spin-cycle
media doctoring

to turn
the impossible into
just a tall order
at
short notice
on
a
shoestring.

Well scorpion
at least you are
no hypocrite
though you might
have considered
rather than
a frog
hitching a river-
crossing on
the back of
a hallucinogenic toad
(speedily that
quick fatal true-to-
nature failed crossing
becoming a wholesomely
mind –
altering
Magical Mystery Boat Tour).